![]() Robert reveals that, with David as the new victim of their torments, they no longer need Nanny Tess. The siblings appear and force Nanny Tess to confess to their murder (she had locked the siblings in a bedroom and then set fire to the house). Mariell drowned herself was because she discovered drunken Simon and Robert in their parent's bed having incestuous sex with Christina. Nanny Tess also reveals that the reason Mrs. She confirms that the Mariell siblings are indeed dead and that their ghosts will do anything to keep Nanny Tess and David from leaving. David escapes, returns to the house, and confronts Nanny Tess. The car crashes into a tree and explodes, killing Christina. On the drive home, he sees the vision of his sister in the middle of the road and wrenches the wheel to avoid her. Despite his sister's warning, David leaves with Christina, who has appeared in her car. Doyle ( John Gielgud), the family doctor, whom he had met earlier, only to be told by his sister's ghost that Doyle also had died many years ago. Juliet calls his attention to a specific tombstone which states that Robert, Christina and Simon Mariell all died in a fire at Edbrook House in 1923.Ī very confused David seeks out Dr. He searches for Christina but instead sees the ghost of his twin sister Juliet, who leads David to a cemetery. In the morning when David wakes, the wind is gusting through the house, which is now cloaked in black drapes and littered with fallen leaves. Although she refuses, they engage in a passionate kiss and end up in making love in her bed. When David decides to finally leave Edbrook, he asks Christina to come away with him. David postulates that it is the trauma of this which is causing Nanny Tess to see the ghost of Mrs. Christina, who had originally told David both her parents died in India, admits that in fact her mother drowned herself in the lake and Nanny Tess was the one who discovered the body. David himself begins having paranormal experiences. However, older brother Robert ( Anthony Andrews) is adamantly against their friendship and the two have a suspiciously close relationship. ![]() Complicating the investigation is Christina's continuous flirtation with David, and his own infatuation with her. She drives David to the palatial Edbrook House, where he meets Christina's two brothers and the withdrawn Nanny Tess.ĭavid begins to perform forensic examinations of the house, trying to detect evidence of paranormal activity. The siblings are concerned for her mental health and believe her belief in ghosts is due to her senility. Christina explains that Miss Webb is in fact their Nanny Tess ( Anna Massey), and that she wrote to David at the urging of the Mariell siblings, Christina, Robert and Simon. The name of the house is Edbrook.ĭavid travels to Sussex, where he is picked up at the railway station by the beautiful Christina Mariell ( Kate Beckinsale). She then says a young woman's husband is there to talk to her, but David exposes her tricks to the assembled circle, revealing her hidden accomplices, but is then shocked to hear her call out his name in a voice that sounds like his sister's.Īs a professor at Oxford, he receives a series of urgent entreaties from a Miss Webb, who claims she is being tormented by ghosts, to come and help her. He attends a seance, where the medium, apparently in a trance, mentions Ed Brook, a name which means nothing to anyone there. After her death, David and his mother went to live in America. He was motivated by the untimely death of Juliet, his twin sister, when they were 11, for which he blames himself. In 1928 England, David Ash ( Aidan Quinn), an English professor, has spent a majority of his life working in the field of parapsychology to disprove the existence of ghosts. The film was produced by Andrews and Gilbert. It is based on a 1988 novel of the same name by James Herbert, but makes significant changes to the original story. Haunted is a 1995 horror film, by veteran director Lewis Gilbert and starring Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Shalet and John Gielgud.
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